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Mycobacterium

Mycobacterium is a genus within the order Actinomycetales that comprises a large number of well characterised species, several of which are associated with human and animal disease such as tuberculosis and leprosy.

The Sanger Institute has also initiated a Wellcome Trust funded genomics program to look at various aspect of mycobacterial evolution and epidemiology in collaboration with
Douglas Young and Sebastian Gagneux, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, Division of Mycobacterial Research, London, UK.

Francis Drobniewski, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, UK.

Mike Prentice, Department of Microbiology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.

Dick van Soolingen, National Mycobacteria Reference Laboratory, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands.

Sandra Newton, Imperial College, London, UK.

Derrick Crook, Oxford University, Oxford, UK.

Helen Donoghue, UCL School of Life and Medical Sciences, London, UK.

Noel Smith, Centre for the Study of Evolution, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.